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The counter-test gets paid — CoreWeave +16% overnight as Seoul melts up into CPI Tuesday flipped Monday's rotation — semis bounced while software rested — and the vol complex kept compressing into the event.
The counter-test gets paid — CoreWeave +16% overnight as Seoul melts up into CPI
1 CoreWeave & Lumentum — the overnight double print2 ON Holding & monday.com — punished-print scoring3 Semis vs software — Tuesday flipped Monday4 Energy vs Real Estate — the sector split5 Factor board — defensive rotation, official6 Gold, bonds — and dollar-yen, the post-CPI tell that outranks the rest7 Closelook indices — the agentic complex leads the month8 Asia overnight — Seoul melts up, Tokyo confirms9 Calendar: CPI at 14:30 CET — with Nebius inside the hour10 Outside view — Gene Munster · Deepwater The full Morning 10 →
The referendum passes at midday — neoclouds vertical, semis re-bid, and the yen refuses to stand down
1 Nebius Group2 CoreWeave3 Lumentum All ten lines →
If you want one clean reading on the AI capex build-out trade, the neoclouds are it: they buy accelerators with borrowed money and sell the capacity forward, so their prints grade demand and financing conditions in the same number. Overnight the most leveraged name in the cohort — four flags on our credit tape, four straight post-print sell-offs — beat both lines and was paid 15.7% after hours, building to roughly +19% by pre-market.
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Print-record cards of the day COHR — Coherent :
EPS beats 10/10 · revenue 7/10 · reactions 7 up / 1 flat / 2 down · next print 2026-11-04 CSCO — Cisco :
EPS beats 10/10 · revenue 10/10 · reactions 5 up / 0 flat / 5 down · next print 2026-11-11 1 recorded trade:
Added NOK (Global Tech 50).
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